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Picture of the Month
December 2
Harold W. Gegenheimer
Lecture on Innovation:
Dr. Robin Murphy
Ferst Center
December 2
GVU Brown Bag: Ken
Perlin
TSRB 132
December 4
Girl Scout Workshop Alice
CCB 345
December7
Cool Computing
College of Computing
December 9
Women@CC End-ofSemester Winter Party
College of Computing
Students, Faculty Pull Together @ Picnic
More than 160 students, faculty and staff braved the cold weather on Nov. 6 for the CoC Grad
Student Picnic, held in Piedmont Park. Organized by CS Ph.D. student Romain Cledat and the
Graduate Student Council Social Committee, the event featured food, fun and camaraderie,
including a tug-of-war, miniature pumpkin painting and soccer, to name a few activities. "I
knew this picnic was important for the whole CoC community, and I hope it becomes a yearly
event," Cledat said. "We have a couple of ideas [for similar events] so hopefully we can do
some of those." Cledat extended special thanks to Dean Zvi Galil for driving the event
forward, as well as to his fellow GSC social committee members Chaitrali Amrutkar, Hank
Carter, Saurabh Chakradeo, Catherine Grevet, Daniel Long and David White (staff
liaison to the committee). Pulling above (l to r) are Galil, faculty members Richard Fujimoto
(CSE), Jim Xu (CS) and Milos Prvulovic (CS), and Ph.D. students Liam MacDermed and
Denise Chew. To view more photos, visit the CoC Flickr stream.
Research News
December 10
Last day of classes
December 10
C4G Review Day
Klaus Atrium
December 13-17
Final Exams
December 17
CoC Holiday Party
December 17
Dean's Honors Banquet
Klaus Atrium
December 17
CoC Dean's Fall
Undergraduate Honors
Reception
Klaus Atrium
Financial Dashboard for October 2010
December 24-30
Winter Break
2011 YTD New
Awards
December 31
School Holiday
Proposed Contracts for October 2010
Total
$ Amount
IC
CS
CSE
$18,610,370
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$3,042,554
22%
58%
20%
Newly Awarded Contracts for October 2010
Sponsor
US Department
of Energy
US Department
of Energy
Value
$67,000
PI
Co-PIs
Title
Karsten
Schwan
Greg
Eisenhauer;
Matthew Wolf
Runtime System for I/O
Staging in Support of InSitu Processing of
Extrem�
Rich Vuduc
Vancouver: Designing a
Next Generation Software
Infrastructure for Heter�
$2,600,000* Jeffrey Vetter
(through
ORNL)
US Department
of Energy
$500,000
Constantine
Dovrolis
NSF
$15,000
Milos Prvulovic None
NSF
$75,000
None
Nick Feamster None
Detection Localization and
Diagnosis of Performance
Problems using Perfso...
Support for the 43rd
Annual ACM/IEEE
International Symposium
on Microarchitecture
Aster*x: Load-Balancing
Web Traffic Over WideArea Networks
Grants/Gifts Received for October 2010
Sponsor
Value
PI
Co-PIs
Title
Google
$75,000
Wenke Lee
None
Dynamic Reputation DNS
91.5%
Retention rate of CoC
freshmen (CS & CM)
from 2004-2008
260M
Deformable blood cells
simulated by George
Biros-led team in
application that won
2010 Gordon Bell Prize
2.507
Speed (in petaflops) of
Tianhe-1A, currently
the world's fastest
super-computer, as
measured by the
Graph500 benchmark
system co-designed by
David Bader & Jason
Riedy (CSE)
* denotes multi-institutional award; ORNL share is $1 million, GT share is $339,000; partners
include University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Oregon
People@CoC
CoC Represents at IEEE VisWeek 2010
The College fielded a strong presence at IEEE VisWeek 2010, Oct. 24-29 in Salt Lake City.
VisWeek is the premier forum for visualization advances for academia, government and
industry, and encompasses the InfoVis and VAST conferences.
• John Stasko (IC) served on the VisWeek Executive Committee and was one of seven on the
InfoVis Steering Committee.
• Haesun Park (CSE) served on the VAST program committee.
• Edward Clarkson, Carsten Göerg (IC) and Stasko served on the InfoVis Program
Committee
• Ph.D. students Zhicheng Liu and Youn-ah Kang were accepted into the IEEE VisWeek
Doctoral Colloquium, a single-day, invitation-only event.
• Guy Lebanon (CSE) and Fei Sha organized the tutorial, "Machine Learning for Information
Visualization."
• Park, Hanspeter Pfister, Patrick McCormick, David Ebert and Lee Wilkinson lead
their workshop, "Extreme Scale Visual Analytics."
• Nils Gehlenborg, Göerg, Miriah Meyer, and Cydney Nielsen headed the panel
discussion, "Challenges in Visualizing Biological Data."
• Stasko and Liu presented two papers, "Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in
Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective" and "Theories in Information Visualization:
What, Why and How"
• Rahul Basole, Mengdie Hu, Pritesh Patel and Stasko presented their poster, "Visualizing
Converging Business Ecosystems for Competitive Intelligence."
• Jaegul Choo, Hanseung Lee, Jaeyeon Kihm and Park presented their paper,
"iVisClassifier: An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Classification Based on Supervised
Dimension Reduction."
Lastly, the CoC took home the following awards:
• Liu, Göerg, Jaeyeon Kihm, Lee, Jaegul Choo, Park and Stasko took home the award for
Good Support for "Data Ingest: Data Ingestion and Evidence Marshaling in Jigsaw."
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This month various groups
at CoC are pursuing
partnerships with the
following companies:
U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers
Google
Microsoft
NSA
Yahoo!
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• Lee, Choo, Göerg, Jaeeun Shim, Kihm, Liu, Park and Stasko won the award for Excellent
Process Explanation for "GeneTracer: Gene Sequence Analysis of Disease Mutations."
Stasko Delivers Keynote at ISVC10 in Vegas
John Stasko (IC) delivered a keynote presentation at the 6th International Symposium on
Visual Computing (ISVC10), held Nov. 29-Dec. 1 in Las Vegas. The conference provides a
common forum for researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world to
present their latest research findings, ideas, developments and applications in the broader
area of visual computing. Stasko's keynote was titled, "Visual Analytics for Investigative
Analysis and Exploration of Documents and Data."
Rehg Invited to Speak at National Academies Conference
Jim Rehg (IC) was an invited participant in the 8th Annual National Academies Keck Future
Initiative (NAKFI) Conference, "Seeing the Future with Imaging Science," held Nov. 17-19 in
Irvine, Calif. NAKFI is a 15-year effort of the National Academy of Sciences, the National
Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine to catalyze interdisciplinary inquiry and
enhance communication among researchers, funding organizations, universities and the
general public. The objective is to support the climate for conducting interdisciplinary research,
and to break down related institutional and systemic barriers.
Atlanta, GT Play Host to MICRO Conference, Dec. 4-8
Georgia Tech will host MICRO-43, the premier forum for microarchitecture ideas for advanced
computing systems, Dec. 4-8 at the GT Hotel & Conference Center. The conference highlights
the discussion of compilers, processor architecture, traditional MICRO topics and new research
in the area. Tom Conte and Sudhakar Yalamanchili (both CS) are serving as co-chairs of
the conference, and other College faculty members on the planning team include Hsien-Hsin
Lee (CS, Workshops & Tutorials Chair), Milos Prvulovic (CS, Finance Chair) and Hyesoon
Kim (CS, Publicity Chair). A series of MICRO-related workshops and tutorials will be held in
the Klaus Building on Dec. 4 and 5. The following papers by members of the college will be
presented at the conference:
• "Many-Thread Aware Prefetching Mechanisms for GPGPU Applications,"
Jaekyu Lee, Nagesh B. Lakshminarayana, Kim, Richard Vuduc (CSE)
• "SD3: A Scalable Approach to Dynamic Data-Dependence Profiling,"
Minjang Kim, Hyesoon Kim, Chi-Keung Luk
Six CoC Staffers Earn Professional Certificates
Congratulations to six CoC staff members who completed Georgia Tech professional certificate
programs through the Office of Organizational Development (OOD). The six, who received
their certificates at an OOD luncheon on Nov. 11, included:
• Joi Adams (RIM) – GT Financial Fundamentals Certificate
• Brian Boddy (Finance) – GT Financial Fundamentals Certificate & GT Financial Specialist
Certificate
• Eden Chandler (TSO) – Information Security Certificate
• LerVerne Davis (Finance) – Defining Customer Service Certificate
• James Kriigel (TSO) – Information Security Certificate
• David Mercer (TSO) – Information Security Certificate
Vempala Speaks at Kyoto Prize Workshop in Tokyo
Santosh Vempala (CS) was an invited speaker at the 2010 Kyoto Prize Satellite Workshop in
Tokyo, Nov. 16-18. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have
contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of mankind. The
prize is awarded annually in each of the following three categories: Advanced Technology,
Basic Sciences, and Arts and Philosophy. This year the Kyoto Prize in Basic Science went to
Laszlo Lovasz of Eötvös Loránd University. Vempala's address was titled, "Effective Principal
Component Analysis."
Chandramowlishwaran Wins HPC Fellowship at SC10
George Biros (CSE) and team's Gordon Bell Prize wasn't the only award the CoC picked up at
SC10 in New Orleans. Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, a third-year Ph.D. student in CSE,
was one of two recipients of the 2010 George A. Michael Memorial High-Performance
Computing Fellowship. The award recognizes Chandramowlishwaran's work, which aims to
simplify the development of highly efficient parallel programs by elucidating new principles and
mechanisms for automatically tuning (autotuning) software. Winners receive a $5,000 stipend
plus additional funds to attend SC11, where they are invited to give a special lecture on their
research.
Goodman Gives Invited Talks on Cybersecurity in Washington
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Sy Goodman (CS) has had another busy semester of invited talks, starting with the "Meeting
on the Future of the Internet," sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and
held in Washington, Sept. 30. Goodman also spoke at the National Intelligence Council
workshop, "Geopolitical Implications of Global Advances in Information and Communication
Technologies through 2020," Sept. 30. Finally, he spoke and participated in the Conference
Board of Canada's Nov. 3 "Cyberspace and National Security" event on current approaches and
shortcomings to cybersecurity, Nov. 3. All three of Goodman's events were held in
Washington, D.C.
Professional Woman of the Year Mynatt Delivers TEDx Talk
Beth Mynatt (IC) delivered a talk, "Melding Human Potential and Technology Design," at
TEDxPeachtree on Nov. 5. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people
together to share new ideas; the theme of the Nov. 5 event was "Shift," and it explored how
shifts in the cultural, socioeconomic, technological and scientific arenas have challenged the
way people live, think and even perceive themselves and others. In her talk, Mynatt discussed
the evolution of new technologies using "human convergence" and how the interplay of new
technologies with the human creative spirit creates new and unanticipated outcomes. Video of
the talk is available here.
Mynatt's TEDx lecture came on the heels of being named Professional Woman of the Year by
the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW). NAPW is one of the most exclusive
and rapidly growing associations of female executives, professionals and entrepreneurs in the
United States. The association spans almost every industry including health and medicine,
education, advertising and public relations, manufacturing, publishing, communications,
entertainment, law and more.
Grevet Receives ARCS Imlay Award
Ph.D. student Catherine Grevet (advisor Beth Mynatt) was awarded the Imlay Award at
the ARCS Scholars Award Luncheon on Nov. 18 at the Ritz-Carlton, Atlanta. Each year the
Atlanta ARCS Chapter provides awards to academically outstanding U.S. scholars pursuing
degrees in science, engineering and medical research from Emory, Georgia Tech, Morehouse
College and UGA. The award includes a financial gift of $7,500. Grevet is a second-year CS
student with a focus in human-computer interaction. Her research interests include health,
wellness and personal informatics related to sustainability.
Vazirani Searches for Pricing Model for Digital Goods in USC Seminar
Vijay Vazirani (CS) delivered a seminar at the University of Southern California on Nov. 30
titled "Extending General Equilibrium Theory to the Digital Economy." Part of USC's "Game
Theory & Human Behavior" seminar series, the talk advanced a first step toward designing a
pricing model for digital goods. General equilibrium theory, which Vazirani called the
"undisputed crown jewel of mathematical economics" over the past century, does not apply to
digital goods; once produced, a digital good can be reproduced at (essentially) zero cost, thus
making its supply infinite. Vazirani's talk was based on a joint paper with Kamal Jain of
Microsoft Research.
Personnel Announcements
Henning Meyerhenke has joined CoC as a Post-Doc in CSE effective 10/1/10. His email
address is henningm@cc and he is located in KACB 1333. Welcome Henning!
Eric Gilbert has joined CoC as an Assistant Professor in IC effective 11/1/10. His email
address is egilbert@cc, phone number is 4-4454 and he is located in TSRB 345. Welcome Eric!
Della Phinisee has been re-hired as an Administrative Assistant II assisting David Bader in
CSE effective 11/17/10. Her email address is della@cc, phone number is 4-5756 and she is
located in KACB 1320. Welcome back Della!
Stefany Sanders' last day at CoC was 11/26/10. Best wishes, Stefany!
Stephanie Chaillat's last day at CoC was 11/30/10. Best wishes, Stephanie!
General News
CoC Office of Communications Wins Gold Tower Awards
The College's Office of Communications took home more honors from the 2010 Gold Tower
Awards, sponsored by Georgia Tech Communications & Marketing. At the Nov. 11 ceremony,
the group picked up a Gold Tower for a Twitter campaign promoting the College's participation
in the 2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. They also won an Award of
Excellence for the College's new websites (CoC, CS, IC and CSE), launched in the spring, and
Director Stefany Sanders was named the 2010 GT Communicator of the Year. Overall, the
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communications group competed against more than 90 entries across six main categories.
Women@CC End-of-Semester Party Set for Dec. 9
Women@CC will host an End-of-Semester Winter Party on Thursday, Dec. 9, from 6 p.m. to
7:30 p.m. in CCB 354. Participants are encouraged to bring food for the potluck. There will
also be a Secret Santa activity, in which each person will bring in a gift (suggested value of
$10) for another person. RSVP is required by Dec. 2. Contact Candis Pham or Linda Huynh for
more information.
Recruiting Under Way for Barcelona, GTL 2011 summer programs
Applications are being accepted now by the Office of International Education (OIE) for the
summer Barcelona and Georgia Tech-Lorraine (GTL) programs. In order to reserve a seat on
the group flight for the Barcelona program, students must submit a completed application to
OIE no later than Jan. 15, 2011. Admissions are processed on a rolling basis until programs
meet capacity; early application is highly recommended as these programs will likely be full
prior to OIE's summer study abroad application deadline of Feb. 15. For more information on
how to apply, please see OIE's website. For more information on the Barcelona or GTL
program and upcoming information sessions, please email Program Coordinator Dawn
Rutherford.
CoC In the News
To help Compiler readers stay informed of the latest College of Computing media coverage,
we share the month's headlines from the CoC website. Below are links to all headlines from
Nov. 1 to Nov. 30, 2010 (most recent headlines at the top).
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New Social Software Tries to Make Studying Feel Like Facebook
War Machines: Recruiting Robots for Combat
New Supercomputer Criteria
Study Groups Move Online, Attract Students Worldwide
Blood Simulation on Jaguar Takes Gordon Bell Prize
OpenStudy Aims to Create Worldwide Study Group
Georgia Tech-Led Team Wins Gordon Bell Prize for Supercomputing
Candace Mitchell Named GT Undergraduate Woman of Distinction
Search Engine Bridges Language Barrier
University Researchers Develop New Technology To Trace Fraudulent Voice Calls
Georgia Tech Researchers Design Machine Learning Technique to Improve Consumer
Medical Searches
The Deceitful Robot
Robot Musician Jams with Humans
Nick Feamster: Recipient of the 2010 SIGCOMM Rising Star Award
Georgia Tech Keeps High Performance Computing Sights Set on Exascale at SC10
DARPA Begins Funding Plans That Are To Lead To An Exaflop Supercomputer In 2018
Georgia Tech Security Summit Determines Primary Threats
Phone Apps Aim to Fight Harassment
Georgia Tech Engaged in $100 Million Next-Generation Computing Initiative
Showtime for OpenFlow at GENI advanced networking project event
Andrea Thomaz: College of Computing Professor of Excellence for 2010
Can Twitter Predict the Market?
Super Accurate Video Games
OpenStudy. The Match.com of Student Study Help
Lose Weight and Stay Healthy with Usable Health
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